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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213)
Includes indexes
In the beginning / Lila Leibowitz -- The dawn of lineage societies / Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte -- Property forms, political power, and female labour in the origins of class and state societies / Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson -- Slavery and women / Nicole Chevillard and Sébastien Leconte -- The processes of women's subordination in primitive and archaic Greece / Monique Saliou